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Celebrities With Beards

TresSugar — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:05:00 -0800

November is National Beard Month, so I thought I'd gather together 15 of the finest celebrities with beards - and a few who might not be so fine. Who do you think looks best with a beard, and who needs to find a straight razor, pronto?

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Vampire Falls: From Horror Tale to Love Story

TresSugar — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:00:00 -0700

What kind of vampire wanders about in daylight, sports no fangs, and politely declines glasses of lukewarm blood? The most popular one in the world! Edward Cullen, played by our favorite floppy-haired boy du jour Robert Pattinson.

For a genre born out of the dark side, it's become awfully lighthearted. So much that Slate article "Vampires Suck" warns we're setting boys and girls up for two very different first dates. While girls dream about Edward "let's-save-ourselves-for-marriage-even-though-I'm-90" Cullen, boys are online watching porn, expecting sex on the first date and a threesome by the third.

I say that might be going a touch far, since we're pretty sure teenage girls aren't living in Twilight-encrusted vacuums . . . well, we're mostly sure! But the concern does raise another pressing question: when did this blood-sucking villain go soft?

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10 Products That Make Men the New Women

TresSugar — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:00:00 -0700

Karl Lagerfeld made a prediction years ago that men would be the new women. What he meant by that, in part, is that they, too, will be as worried as women about their looks. Metrosexuality is mainstream now, what with men manscaping, flat ironing, and guy-lining their way into the looks-obsessed world we women have inhabited forever. Here are products that make The Kaiser's prediction even more uncanny.

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Tampons and Maxi Pads: A Walk Down Memory Lane

TresSugar — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:15:00 -0700

Whether you call it your Moon Time or the Curse, if you're a woman, you have to contend with a monthly period. Let's take a look at how advertising sold its pads and 'pons to women of yore. Whether it was through distraction (hey, look, a pretty dress!) or through the rhetoric of freedom, advertisers did their best to sell a product women have never really been thrilled to buy.

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10 Girls Who Wear Glasses

TresSugar — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:00:00 -0700

Whoever said that men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses doesn't follow me around when I'm running my errands on the weekend. I can roll out of bed, no makeup, hair a mess, but I put on my LaFont glasses and kaboom, baby! (as Billy Mays would have said), men begin giving me the eye. Now, this is no reason to wear glasses (being able to see is the main one!), but a lady in spectacles is a brainy, sexy sight to behold. Here are a few of our favorite women getting in touch with their inner librarians. Source

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Don't Be That Guy: The Top 10 Guys No Guy Should Be

TresSugar — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:00:00 -0700

For women, there are only two categories of men we need to be aware of: douchebags and nondouchebags. Don't Be That Guy: A Collection of 60 Annoying Guys We All Know and Wish We Didn't breaks those men down into further subcategories. This hilarious book lists almost 60 different types of guys who, if you were a guy, you wouldn't want to be, and if you were a woman, you wouldn't want to be around.

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Alternative Weddings: A Guide

TresSugar — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:30:00 -0700

Are you having, as one writer puts it, a "bridentity crisis"? Maybe you don't want to plan a traditional wedding (or can't afford one), or just want to make sure you don't lose yourself in the Bridal Industrial Complex that is wedding planning. Here are a few books that may help you plan that hipster/feminist/eco wedding of your dreams. Source

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Crazy Obama Products

GiggleSugar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:15:00 -0700

Barack Obama has seeped into the world's collective unconscious to a massive degree, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the bizarre, inappropriate, and downright silly products people are hawking out there. Step right up to see some of the weirder products . . .

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Embroiderers Gone Wild!

GiggleSugar — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:49:47 -0800

It's no secret that the nation has caught the crafting bug, and the art of embroidery, once consigned to the spinsters and elderly of yesteryear, has been taken up by the hipsters and the cool kids. Check out this slideshow to see what kinds of shirt designs, tea cozies, and MP3 player pouches these embroiderers gone wild have come up with. Source

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Totally Tacky Sex Toys: A Valentine's Day Guide

GiggleSugar — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:30:00 -0800

When I was a kid, a trip to the mall was not complete without a visit to Spencer's Gifts, home of all things tacky and strange. I particularly liked its "Adults-Only" section, which seemed, ironically, to house sex toys that seemed invented by children. Edible undies? Glow-in-the-dark handcuffs? Even then, my innocent little brain was all "WTF?!" It still boggles my mind that "special sex night" for some people might involve a visit to Spencer's and other such venues. So just for you, dear readers, I braved the wild, wild world of tacky sex toys and products on the Internet, and brought back products dumb and unsexy enough to inspire you never to have sex again. Happy Valentine's Day! Source

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